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    Apocalypse Now. Right Wing Style.

    April 19, 2011

    As a continuation on yesterday’s tirade against S&P, I see I am not alone. No lesser authority than the Financial Times also dismissed the rating agency as irrelevant. Good. It is. The point, obviously, is that in any market so well researched, deep, and active as that for US bonds, it is practically impossible for […]

    Economics / bank reform, banking, Bush, creditors, deficits, interest rates, Obama, rating agencies, S&P, Standard and Poor's /

    Rating Agency Two Step

    April 18, 2011

    Standard and Poor’s has just announced that it is watching the US very carefully. So carefully, in fact, that it might be forced to downgrade the US debt rating if not for some serious effort to deal with the budget deficit. That deficit, presumably, would cause damage to S&P’s clients. Those would be the big […]

    Economics / bank reform, banking, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase /

    Bank Reform Fades Away … With a Thud

    April 18, 2011

    There it is. Sitting on my computer desktop, pristine and unopened. The vast 650 odd page Levin report on Wall Street and The Financial Crisis. OK I had to open it to see how many pages it was, but that’s it. At this point we can all throw our hands up in despair and move […]

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